Updates on happenings.

Having trouble with bots missing/not working? I tried tons of things to get ioquake3 running on my Kubuntu 13.04 64bit desktop. Short of recompiling, I think I tried every suggestion and install file I could find. None worked.

The fix I finally found was to rename a file inside pak0.pk3. Yes, just rename one file. Supposedly there is a typo in one of the source code files, it’s been years since anyone has touched those files. Unlikely that anyone will be fixing the source and re-releasing.

Navigate to where your pak0.pk3 file is and open it with a zip program (I used Ark, but also tested with unzip and zip). Extract all the files into an empty directory.

Go into the botfiles directory. Here you will see a file named chars.h. Rename it to charsh”. Yes, simply remove the . and add a quote mark to the end.

Backup one directory, select all files and directories (16 folders 54 files in the root) (166 sub-folders and 3,357 total files) and zip them up. Name the zip file pak0.pk3 and put it in your /baseq3 directory.